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Tag: Muslims
Shame on You: Desi Shame Culture and its Impact on Muslim Kids, a guest post by Farah Naz Rishi
This is why I wrote IT ALL COMES BACK TO YOU: to show South Asian Muslim teens who are finally able to break the silence—and that ultimately, the most important lesson any teen can learn is that despite those who pretend otherwise, we’re human, flaws and all.
Book Review: Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi
Publisher’s description At a time when we are all asking questions about identity, grief, and how to stand up for what is right, this book by the author of A Thousand Questions will hit home with young readers who love Hena Khan and Varian Johnson—or anyone struggling to understand recent U.S. history and how it still affects […]
Talking With Kids About 9/11, a guest post by Saadia Faruqi
"In my book YUSUF AZEEM IS NOT A HERO, I explore many aspects of a post 9/11 world and how they affected my community."
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Book Review: A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
I particularly value this story for showing how complex making a new friend can be, but showing characters who push through their discomfort and hesitations to make a real connection.
Book Review: The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah, a guest post by Sanya
Guest blogger Sanya reviews this debut sci-fi title and is grateful, as a Muslim girl, to see this sort of representation in a non-contemporary setting.
Book Review: Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi
As much about finding yourself as it is about finding love, this smart, feminist story shows that expectations shouldn't dictate the future.
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Writing Myself a New Story, a guest post by Jasmine Warga
In a moving essay, Jasmine Warga shares about her uncle Abdalla, her trips to Jordan, identity, and writing a new story.
Book Review: Love from A to Z by S. K. Ali
Easily in the top five books I've read so far in 2019. This is a beautiful, complex, and important book that centers the Muslim experience and shows the power of anger, peace, and connection.
Book Review: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
Publisher’s description In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India’s partition, and of one girl’s journey to find a new home in a divided country It’s 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and […]
Book Review: Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
Publisher’s description In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their […]
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